Bankrupt Sri Lanka yesterday announced sharp government spending cuts and warned it had barely enough revenue to pay public salaries and pensions despite huge tax hikes.

The activist daughter of former Iranian president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani has been sentenced to five years in prison, her lawyer said today.

China has suspended issuing some visas for South Korea and Japan in Beijing’s first retaliation against Covid-related curbs on Chinese travellers.

Myanmar authorities have sentenced 112 Rohingya, including a dozen children, to between two and five years in prison for attempting to travel to Malaysia "without legal documents", state media reported Tuesday..The group were arrested last month in the southern Ayeyarwady region and senten

Taiwan yesterday condemned China for holding its second military combat drills around the island in less than a month, with the defence ministry saying it had detected 57 Chinese aircraft.

Almost 90 percent of people in China’s third most populous province have now been infected with Covid-19, a top official said yesterday, as the country battles an unprecedented surge in cases.

Thailand’s embattled Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha yesterday vowed to fix the kingdom’s problems as he launched his re-election bid at a major rally in the capital Bangkok.

No rhinos were poached last year in the world’s largest reserve for the endangered great one-horned rhinoceros, India’s Assam state, in what authorities said was the first time since 1977.

Pakistan said yesterday that donors had committed to give more than $8 billion to help it recover from last year’s devastating floods in what is seen as a major test for who pays for climate disasters.

Taiwan condemned China on Monday for holding its second military combat drills around the island in less than a month, with the defence ministry saying it had detected 57 Chinese aircraft.

The UN chief called Monday for "massive investments" to help Pakistan recover from last year's devastating floods, saying it was "doubly victimised" by climate change and a "morally bankrupt global financial system".."No country deserves to endure what happened to Pakistan," UN Secretary-G

Pakistan has stepped up efforts to secure money from an international money lender and a friendly state as the South Asian country faces an unprecedented economic crisis.

Authorities in one of the holiest towns in the Indian Himalayas were evacuating panicked residents yesterday after hundreds of houses began developing yawning cracks and sinking, officials said.

Travellers streamed into China by air, land and sea yesterday, many eager for long-awaited reunions, as Beijing opened borders that have been all but shut since the start of the Covid pandemic.

Nineteen people died and 20 were injured yesterday in a road traffic accident in eastern China’s Jiangxi province, state media reported.

Seventeen people were killed and 22 were injured Sunday in a road traffic accident in eastern China's Jiangxi province, state media reported.

Indian authorities have ordered immediate evacuation of nearly 600 families from their houses in the Himalayan town of Joshimath, an official said yesterday, after hundreds of buildings in the area popular with pilgrims and tourists developed cracks due to shifting soil.

Jack Ma will cede control of Chinese fintech giant Ant Group, the company announced yesterday, following a Communist Party crackdown on the nation’s tech sector that targeted the charismatic billionaire.

A prisoner was killed and more than 60 wounded after a riot broke out at a Myanmar prison west of Yangon, the junta said yesterday.

China yesterday marked the first day of “chun yun”, the 40-day period of Lunar New Year travel known pre-pandemic as the world’s largest annual migration of people, bracing for a huge increase in travellers and the spread of Covid-19 infections.